The prince disliked her, and the legitimate daughter was reborn and married to the regent

Yun Nian patted Lang Ya's arm, and he stopped immediately. A huge broken shadow appeared in front of him, as if there was a cracked canyon in front of him.

But there was nothing in front of us, and there shouldn't be any shadows appearing suddenly. If a cool breeze blew by, a timid person would get goose bumps.

"what?"

Zuo Mingyuan looked up. There was only the sun and the yellow sand. There was no other obstruction. Why was there such a strange scene?

When he was about to move forward, Yun Nian stopped him.

"Wait, listen."

Her ears moved slightly, and her eyes fell on the darkest part of the shadow.

"That's a scorpion ant."

Langya suddenly spoke, and took a step back cautiously.

"How come there are so many of these? You know, a scorpion ant as big as the sole of a shoe is enough to devour a grown man."

Yun Nian heard a deep fear in Lang Ya's words. She looked over again and saw that the shadow under the sun really looked like it was made up of something swirling and moving.

The tiny scorpion ants gathered together, densely packed together, and became a broken shadow.

The broken part in the middle can only accommodate one person.

"This is not going to be good."

Langya's face was heavy, and Yun Nian jumped off his arms at this moment.

"Master, don't come near!"

He shouted anxiously, but found that Yun Nian did not act rashly. He just stood far away and then squatted down to observe the sand carefully.

"You didn't notice it at first, and you didn't warn me. Does that mean that, at least when you left, there weren't so many scorpion ants here?"

He nodded, and Zuo Mingyuan squatted down, grabbed a handful of sand, and let it flow down his hands.

"Why does the sand here feel a little hotter than the sand we just passed by?"

This was definitely not an exaggeration. Yun Nian also felt a burning sensation, as if he was being roasted on a fire.

"Yes, it's too hot. Even for sunlight this hot, it's abnormal."

Yun Nian's gaze naturally fell on Lang Ya, waiting for him to explain.

The scorpion ants did not come closer, but just hovered in a fixed place, as if drawing countless circles.

"Scorpion ants can concentrate sunlight, and the sunlight they absorb can be directly transferred to the sand beneath them. So even if they hide when people come, we can still detect it from the excessively high temperature of the sand."

Langya paused for a moment, then continued,

"Although scorpion ants can devour a person, even if they gather together, they can only form a small group. As long as you step on the hot sand and jump away immediately, you won't be caught up. It's not particularly dangerous, so I didn't warn you."

He just didn't expect that he had been away from the desert for so long that the scorpion ants had grown to such a size.

Yun Nian looked from the shadows on both sides. The light grey shadows kept extending outwards. It was unknown how far they extended.

"If what you said is true, and scorpion ants gather together to the size of a shoe sole, how can they eat a human?"

No matter how strong its attack power is, it is just an ant. It should be easy to slap or crush it to death.

But Langya's expression looked a little distorted.

"No, once bitten, it is almost impossible to kill them by yourself without help from others. The scorpion ant's saliva or sharp teeth carry some kind of venom that makes people weak and crazy. Once touched, you will lose your strength and become insane."

"So if a person encounters this, it is almost a death situation."

If there was only a small group of scorpion ants, they could still find another way to avoid them, but now this dense swarm of ants stretched to who knows how far away, leaving only a small path in the middle.

"Zuo Mingyuan, have you heard of these scorpion ants since you came to Jisha City?"

Yun Nian turned his head and looked at the young man with an unpleasant look in his eyes. There was a cautious look in his eyes.

He shook his head, took out his sword and lightly scratched the sand.

"No, no one has ever mentioned this thing. I only know that there are many poisonous snakes and wolves in the desert, and there is dangerous quicksand, but no one has ever mentioned this ghost thing, and Qi Ming has never mentioned it either."

This would make things even more serious.

Unbeknownst to them, something strange happened in the desert near Keluo.

According to Langya's narration, in just over a decade, these things have expanded thousands of times, and may even be more terrifying.

What if no one discovers it? What if this thing multiplies and occupies all the deserts and spreads under the walls of Jisha City?

That must be a very terrifying scene. Yun Nian felt a chill in his heart.

"It's impossible for the scorpion ants to grow so big for no reason. Someone must have done something, just like those mummies that suddenly appeared. Keluo, Keluo, what are they secretly planning?"

They must figure it out, otherwise, all the people in Jisha City will die here.

"We have to get over there."

Yun Nian pointed to the small path of golden sand.

"No, Master, it's too dangerous!"

Langya shook his head anxiously, blocking her way.

"You haven't seen it with your own eyes. Those who were eaten by scorpion ants died in a very miserable way. It was as if they drilled into their skin, sucked out the blood and flesh inside, and ate their eyeballs. In the end, only a shriveled corpse was left!"

No one would dare to pass through such a huge scorpion ant colony if they had seen such a tragedy with their own eyes.

What's more, Langya couldn't guarantee that these scorpion ants would not change the direction of their movement.

"Don't risk yourself. We need to find some help."

She pursed her lips and signaled Langya to look at the thing that suddenly popped out of the sand.

It was a snake that looked extremely poisonous. It had just emerged and was about to run in the opposite direction when it saw the shadow that covered the sky, but was caught by Zuo Mingyuan.

"Use this thing?"

He frowned and asked. The snake twisted its body and tried to wrap around his hand, but he used his long knife to push it away.

"I have to try it anyway. It just happened to run into it. It can only be considered bad luck."

Yun Nian blinked.

"You throw a knife at it and see how it responds."

Hearing her words, Zuo Mingyuan picked up the snake with the tip of his knife and threw it into the middle of the empty passage with perfect accuracy.

The three of them stared at the snake closely, watching it as if it was frozen in place, not daring to move.

After a few moments of stalemate, the snake began to crawl in a winding manner. Its originally huge amplitude was controlled to almost become a straight line, and it passed through the scorpion ant colony tremblingly.